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<span class=large>THE BOOK OF JACOB</span><br/> THE BROTHER OF NEPHI
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CHAPTER 4
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All the prophets worshipped the Father in the name of Christ—Abraham’s offering of Isaac was in similitude of God and his Only Begotten—Men should reconcile themselves to God through the atonement—The Jews shall reject the foundation stone.  Between 544 and 421 <span class='small'>B.C.</span>
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Now</span> behold, it came to pass that I, Jacob, having ministered much unto my people in word, (and I cannot write but a <sup>a</sup><a href="jacob/4/1a" mark="a" type="A" title="1 Ne. 6: 6; Jarom 1: 14; Omni 1: 30.">little</a> of my words, because of the <sup>b</sup><a href="jacob/4/1b" mark="b" type="A" title="Ether 12: 24 (23-26).">difficulty</a> of engraving our words upon plates) and we know that the things which we write upon plates must remain;
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But whatsoever things we write upon anything save it be upon <sup>a</sup><a href="jacob/4/2a" mark="a" type="B" title="TG Scriptures, Preservation of.">plates</a> must perish and vanish away; but we can write a few words upon plates, which will give our children, and also our beloved brethren, a small degree of knowledge concerning us, or concerning their fathers—
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Now in this thing we do rejoice; and we labor diligently to engraven these words upon plates, hoping that our beloved brethren and our children will receive them with thankful hearts, and look upon them that they may learn with joy and not with sorrow, neither with contempt, concerning their first <sup>a</sup><a href="jacob/4/3a" mark="a" type="B" title="TG Scriptures, Value of.">parents</a>.
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For, for this intent have we written these things, that they may know that we <sup>a</sup><a href="jacob/4/4a" mark="a" type="B" title="TG Jesus Christ, Prophecies about; TG Testimony.">knew</a> of Christ, and we had a hope of his <sup>b</sup><a href="jacob/4/4b" mark="b" type="B" title="TG Jesus Christ, Glory of.">glory</a> many hundred years before his coming; and not only we ourselves had a hope of his glory, but also all the holy <sup>c</sup><a href="jacob/4/4c" mark="c" type="A" title="Luke 24: 27; 1 Pet. 1: 11; Jacob 7: 11 (11-12); Mosiah 13: 33 (33-35); D&C 20: 26.">prophets</a> which were before us.
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Behold, they believed in Christ and <sup>a</sup><a href="jacob/4/5a" mark="a" type="A" title="Moses 5: 8.">worshiped</a> the Father in his name, and also we worship the Father in his <sup>b</sup><a href="jacob/4/5b" mark="b" type="C" title="Gen. 4: 26; Hel. 8: 16 (16-20); TG Name of the Lord.">name</a>. And for this intent we <sup>c</sup><a href="jacob/4/5c" mark="c" type="A" title="2 Ne. 25: 24; Jacob 7: 7; Mosiah 13: 30.">keep</a> the <sup>d</sup><a href="jacob/4/5d" mark="d" type="C" title="Jarom 1: 11; Alma 25: 15 (15-16); TG Law of Moses.">law</a> of Moses, it <sup>e</sup><a href="jacob/4/5e" mark="e" type="A" title="Gal. 3: 24; Ether 12: 19 (18-19).">pointing</a> our souls to him; and for this cause it is sanctified unto us for righteousness, even as it was accounted unto Abraham in the wilderness to be obedient unto the commands of God in offering up his son Isaac, which is a <sup>f</sup><a href="jacob/4/5f" mark="f" type="B" title="TG Jesus Christ, Types of, in Anticipation.">similitude</a> of God and his <sup>g</sup><a href="jacob/4/5g" mark="g" type="C" title="Gen. 22: 2 (1-14); John 3: 16 (16-21); Heb. 11: 17; TG Jesus Christ, Divine Sonship.">Only</a> Begotten Son.
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Wherefore, we search the prophets, and we have many revelations and the spirit of <sup>a</sup><a href="jacob/4/6a" mark="a" type="B" title="TG Prophecy.">prophecy</a>; and having all these <sup>b</sup><a href="jacob/4/6b" mark="b" type="B" title="TG Witnesses.">witnesses</a> we obtain a hope, and our faith becometh unshaken, insomuch that we truly can <sup>c</sup><a href="jacob/4/6c" mark="c" type="C" title="3 Ne. 28: 20 (19-22); TG God, Power of.">command</a> in the <sup>d</sup><a href="jacob/4/6d" mark="d" type="A" title="Acts 3: 6 (6-16); 3 Ne. 8: 1.">name</a> of Jesus and the very trees obey us, or the mountains, or the waves of the sea.
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Nevertheless, the Lord God showeth us our <sup>a</sup><a href="jacob/4/7a" mark="a" type="A" title="Ether 12: 27; D&C 66: 3.">weakness</a> that we may know that it is by his <sup>b</sup><a href="jacob/4/7b" mark="b" type="B" title="TG Grace.">grace</a>, and his great condescensions unto the children of men, that we have power to do these things.
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Behold, great and marvelous are the <sup>a</sup><a href="jacob/4/8a" mark="a" type="A" title="Ps. 106: 2.">works</a> of the Lord.  How <sup>b</sup><a href="jacob/4/8b" mark="b" type="A" title="Rom. 11: 34 (33-36); Mosiah 4: 9.">unsearchable</a> are the depths of the <sup>c</sup><a href="jacob/4/8c" mark="c" type="C" title="D&C 19: 10; D&C 76: 114 (114-116); TG Mysteries of Godliness.">mysteries</a> of him; and it is impossible that man should find out all his ways.  And no man <sup>d</sup><a href="jacob/4/8d" mark="d" type="C" title="Dan. 1: 17; 1 Cor. 2: 11 (9-16); Alma 26: 21 (21-22); TG God, Knowledge about.">knoweth</a> of his <sup>e</sup><a href="jacob/4/8e" mark="e" type="A" title="Isa. 55: 8 (8-9).">ways</a> save it be revealed unto him; wherefore, brethren, despise not the <sup>f</sup><a href="jacob/4/8f" mark="f" type="A" title="D&C 3: 7.">revelations</a> of God.
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For behold, by the power of his <sup>a</sup><a href="jacob/4/9a" mark="a" type="A" title="Morm. 9: 17; Moses 1: 32.">word</a> <sup>b</sup><a href="jacob/4/9b" mark="b" type="B" title="TG Man, Physical Creation of.">man</a> came upon the face of the earth, which earth was <sup>c</sup><a href="jacob/4/9c" mark="c" type="B" title="TG Creation; TG God, Creator; TG Jesus Christ, Creator.">created</a> by the power of his word.  Wherefore, if God being able to speak and the world was, and to speak and man was created, O then, why not able to command the <sup>d</sup><a href="jacob/4/9d" mark="d" type="A" title="Hel. 12: 16 (8-17).">earth</a>, or the workmanship of his hands upon the face of it, according to his will and pleasure?
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Wherefore, brethren, seek not to <sup>a</sup><a href="jacob/4/10a" mark="a" type="A" title="Josh. 9: 14; Prov. 15: 22; Isa. 45: 9; 2 Ne. 9: 28-29; Alma 37: 12, 37; D&C 3: 4, 13; D&C 22: 4.">counsel</a> the Lord, but to take counsel from his hand.  For behold, ye yourselves know that he counseleth in <sup>b</sup><a href="jacob/4/10b" mark="b" type="B" title="TG God, Justice of; TG God, Wisdom of.">wisdom</a>, and in justice, and in great mercy, over all his works.
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Wherefore, beloved brethren, be <sup>a</sup><a href="jacob/4/11a" mark="a" type="C" title="Lev. 6: 30; TG Jesus Christ, Mission of; TG Reconciliation.">reconciled</a> unto him through the <sup>b</sup><a href="jacob/4/11b" mark="b" type="B" title="TG Jesus Christ, Atonement through.">atonement</a> of Christ, his <sup>c</sup><a href="jacob/4/11c" mark="c" type="B" title="TG Jesus Christ, Divine Sonship.">Only</a> Begotten Son, and ye may obtain a <sup>d</sup><a href="jacob/4/11d" mark="d" type="B" title="TG Resurrection.">resurrection</a>, according to the <sup>e</sup><a href="jacob/4/11e" mark="e" type="B" title="TG God, Power of.">power</a> of the resurrection which is in Christ, and be presented as the <sup>f</sup><a href="jacob/4/11f" mark="f" type="A" title="Mosiah 15: 21 (21-23); Mosiah 18: 9; Alma 40: 16 (16-21).">first</a>-fruits of Christ unto God, having faith, and obtained a good hope of glory in him before he manifesteth himself in the flesh.
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And now, beloved, marvel not that I tell you these things; for why not <sup>a</sup><a href="jacob/4/12a" mark="a" type="A" title="2 Ne. 25: 26.">speak</a> of the atonement of Christ, and attain to a perfect knowledge of him, as to attain to the knowledge of a resurrection and the world to come?
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Behold, my brethren, he that prophesieth, let him prophesy to the understanding of men; for the <sup>a</sup><a href="jacob/4/13a" mark="a" type="B" title="TG Holy Ghost, Mission of.">Spirit</a> speaketh the <sup>b</sup><a href="jacob/4/13b" mark="b" type="C" title="John 17: 17; TG Honesty.">truth</a> and lieth not.  Wherefore, it speaketh of things as they really <sup>c</sup><a href="jacob/4/13c" mark="c" type="A" title="D&C 93: 24.">are</a>, and of things as they really will be; wherefore, these things are manifested unto us <sup>d</sup><a href="jacob/4/13d" mark="d" type="A" title="Neh. 8: 8; Jacob 2: 11; Alma 13: 23.">plainly</a>, for the salvation of our souls.  But behold, we are not witnesses alone in these things; for God also <sup>e</sup><a href="jacob/4/13e" mark="e" type="B" title="TG Witness of the Father.">spake</a> them unto prophets of old.
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But behold, the Jews were a <sup>a</sup><a href="jacob/4/14a" mark="a" type="C" title="Deut. 9: 13; Neh. 9: 16; 2 Ne. 25: 2; TG Stiffneckedness.">stiffnecked</a> people; and they <sup>b</sup><a href="jacob/4/14b" mark="b" type="A" title="Num. 15: 31 (30-31); Ezek. 20: 13 (13-16); 1 Ne. 17: 30 (30-31); 1 Ne. 19: 7; 2 Ne. 33: 2; D&C 3: 7 (4-13).">despised</a> the words of <sup>c</sup><a href="jacob/4/14c" mark="c" type="A" title="2 Cor. 11: 3.">plainness</a>, and <sup>d</sup><a href="jacob/4/14d" mark="d" type="A" title="Zech. 1: 4 (2-5).">killed</a> the prophets, and sought for things that they could not understand.  Wherefore, because of their <sup>e</sup><a href="jacob/4/14e" mark="e" type="A" title="Isa. 44: 18.">blindness</a>, which <sup>f</sup><a href="jacob/4/14f" mark="f" type="C" title="Rom. 11: 25; TG Spiritual Blindness.">blindness</a> came by looking beyond the <sup>g</sup><a href="jacob/4/14g" mark="g" type="A" title="John 7: 47 (45-53).">mark</a>, they must needs fall; for God hath taken away his plainness from them, and delivered unto them many things which they <sup>h</sup><a href="jacob/4/14h" mark="h" type="A" title="2 Ne. 25: 1.">cannot</a> understand, because they desired it.  And because they desired it God hath done it, that they may <sup>i</sup><a href="jacob/4/14i" mark="i" type="A" title="Isa. 57: 14.">stumble</a>.
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And now I, Jacob, am led on by the Spirit unto prophesying; for I perceive by the workings of the Spirit which is in me, that by the <sup>a</sup><a href="jacob/4/15a" mark="a" type="A" title="Isa. 8: 14 (13-15); 1 Cor. 1: 23; 2 Ne. 18: 14 (13-15).">stumbling</a> of the <sup>b</sup><a href="jacob/4/15b" mark="b" type="B" title="TG Israel, Judah, People of.">Jews</a> they will <sup>c</sup><a href="jacob/4/15c" mark="c" type="A" title="Rom. 11: 1, 20 (1-36); 1 Ne. 10: 11; Morm. 5: 14 (14-20).">reject</a> the <sup>d</sup><a href="jacob/4/15d" mark="d" type="B" title="TG Cornerstone; TG Jesus Christ, Prophecies about; TG Rock.">stone</a> upon which they might build and have safe foundation.
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But behold, according to the scriptures, this <sup>a</sup><a href="jacob/4/16a" mark="a" type="A" title="Ps. 118: 22 (22-23).">stone</a> shall become the great, and the last, and the only sure <sup>b</sup><a href="jacob/4/16b" mark="b" type="A" title="Isa. 28: 16 (14-17); Hel. 5: 12.">foundation</a>, upon which the Jews can build.
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And now, my beloved, how is it possible that these, after having rejected the sure foundation, can <sup>a</sup><a href="jacob/4/17a" mark="a" type="A" title="Matt. 19: 30; Jacob 5: 63 (62-64); D&C 29: 30.">ever</a> build upon it, that it may become the head of their corner?
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Behold, my beloved brethren, I will unfold this mystery unto you; if I do not, by any means, get shaken from my firmness in the Spirit, and stumble because of my over anxiety for you.
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